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This is the last (regularly scheduled) Northern Capital News of 2023
Su-zu-raaan, su-zu-ran so far away
Cattle bells, the pulp mill smells
The readers have spoken: Costco is a friend to the city
It's a FUN (and frosty) Friday
Investigation launched into police action or inaction after missing Saik'uz woman found dead
Should Prince George join Vancouver and Surrey and hire an independent ethics commissioner?
Indian tacos from Edmonton! Our terrible transit system! Prince George, Wrapped!
A national suicide hotline launches thanks to a local MP
It's still a 4-2 split at the school board
The drought reveals a 35-year-old plastic bag from Woodward's Food Floor buried beneath the river
Let's all move to Burnaby, I guess
UNBC grad found guilty of leaking secret Canadian intelligence to police targets
Every stock image of Mr. PG is wrong now
AleFest's continued ticket woes and the risk of becoming too successful
The TikTok algorithm and northern B.C.
A Catholic-led care home is being built in the city
The city issues stop work notices on homeless camp shelters but won't stop the work, or the shelters
The most-hyped Prince George restaurant opening in years (ever?)
Another life lost along the Highway of Tears
Local couple's case puts Air Canada's treatment of people with disabilities in the spotlight
Here's a livestream of wild caribou eating out near Bear Lake
Let's talk about all the downtown development news
The teenaged dynamite riot of Halloween 1966
Fireworks, exploding in your backyard
One year of Northern Capital News
Let's end the week with a couple of animal videos
The ability to find childcare actually is worse in Prince George
A business sues the city for not doing enough to prevent crime
How can you support local news?
How the city can use the official community plan to keep greenspace
A visioning exercise for the city and some great local art
The arena equivalent of a Discman
The last newspaper in the north
If you think there are too many public washrooms in Prince George, good news
We're finally measuring COVID-19 levels in Prince George
Raccoons, riverfronts and pay parking
The Prince George Cougars ARE good this year, huh?
A roundabout way to spend $1 million — and many aren't buying the official story about why
A Tuesday grab-bag that's mostly fall colours
John Rustad compares SOGI education to residential schools
Aging billionaire comes to town to celebrate opening new store where we can pay him for food
A new start for the school board, with some old baggage
If you want a privately-owned lot to remain as greenspace, you're gonna have to buy it
Could this be the Cougars year?
The city of Prince George speaks in favour of inclusive classrooms. The school board? Not so much
The dump, the dump, the dump is on fire
Enjoy the free concert, everyone!
What can we learn from the school board by-election results?
Your guide to the 2023 school board by-election candidates (vote on Saturday)
An anti-SOGI candidates withdraws from the school board election race mid-debate
T̶h̶e̶ ̶M̶o̶n̶k̶ R̶u̶m̶ ̶J̶u̶n̶g̶l̶e̶ Heartbreakers has been sold
It's time to start getting to know the candidates for school board
Help me make a list of every mascot in Prince George
What is and isn't known about the finding of Madison Scott
Solving a mystery with Safeway
In which I talk about soup for 700 words
A former mayor, city manager and city planner walk into a consulting firm....
Is River Point Shopping Centre the ideal neighbourhood?
Is Prince George ready for another mass evacuation?
Happy Zelda day to those who celebrate
Greetings from the 56th Happiest City in Canada
Welcome to Prince George Island
Just the neighbourhood emus out for a walk
Understanding wildfire evacuation orders and alerts, and where to get the information you need
The (possible) origins of the Screamer in Prince George
If you could build anything in the city, what would it be?
Sundown: Memories of Gordon Lightfoot
Let's build a restaurant in the clouds
An outburst at the school board meeting
Blame it (the power outage) on the rain
Between a moose and a snowy place
OMG a Red Tomato Pie is opening here
The chips are down: The sun sets on PG Pulp
College Heights is Quesnel North, the Hart is Mackenzie South
CrossRoads apologizes for threatening to fire anyone who asks other employees about wages
Afroman is relevant again, just in time for his visit to Prince George
The Premier is ghosting the Mayor and wondering about a vet school
A doubling in kids with severe flu
Edmonton is stealing our memes but we're stealing their NHL hockey coaches
The premier offers Prince George a bit of moral support over homeless camps
Guest post: The costs of new subdivisions
Guest post: Every created thing will some day disappear
Back to the school board: Governance and communication issues
The city decides to set up a centralized homeless camp, even though they don’t want to
An attempted guide to what's going on at School District 57
Semi-annual reminder that city council could end time changes
Context vs. the Fraser Institute
To stream or not to stream school board meetings
City building inspectors raise the alarm, and Lambda is back in court
Canfor makes $$ and explaining the school board drama
A school board scandal in the making
Free parking and prime cow-grazing pasture downtown for mayor Lyn Hall
Do we care about accusations of RCMP wrongdoing?
It's a good thing Cameron Stolz doesn't want to run for council in 2026
That British guy from clips you see on Facebook is coming to town
I promise this newsletter has some cheeful winter things
Is it better to have won and lost or to have never won at all?
We are the Smash Bros. champions of the world
The karaoke king of Burns Lake plays piano in downtown Prince George
The city is open for business but don't go back on the deal
Let's just bypass the whole city
Let's talk about snow days and whether we should declare them
'Dale Culver should still be alive and with his friends'
Who let the rats out? And drug decriminalization in northern B.C.
This post has pictures of rescue pigs and a moose with lights in its antlers
A new performance centre, in one of Prince George's oldest buildings
The city of Prince George vs UNBC
Megabust: More predictions on Prince George's economic future and they aren't all good
Bitcoin isn't saving the forest industry, and the Hart isn't walkable
Has Twitter finally figured out the difference between our city and the royal child?
Turns out we need more firefighters, too — though maybe what we really need are paramedics
OK, this time we're *really* going create value-added forestry jobs
The mayor's learning curve continues
Ctrl-Salt-Delete, the Parkwood Lake and visual identity
It will take years to measure the true impact of today's mill closures
In 2023, how devastating of a blow is a mill closure to Prince George's future?
The small Canadian town clout scale
The most valuable street in Prince George does not look like my idea of a good time
A tea latte from Tim Hortons is the perfect metaphor for Prince George, actually